IVI/IVI Apr 23, 2013 2.0 release

On the 23rd of April, the IVI team released Tizen 2.0 for In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI). This release builds on Tizen 2.0 and includes a fully-functional Web RunTime (WRT) in addition to several automotive components and features such as Wi-Fi tethering, HD Video support, Media sharing (DLNA), Policy manager, Dual display, GUI Components and some sample applications.

The Tizen IVI images now use UUIDs instead of hardcoded device names which means that the images are completely device-agnostic and the same raw image can be run from a USB stick or directly installed on your HDD with no modifications. For more information on how to install Tizen IVI on your system, please check Installing IVI downloads

Tizen 2.0 Core Applications

Tizen 2.0 includes a set of Core application available to all Tizen devices including IVI.

Calculator: An application to do basic mathematics: i.e. add/subtract/multiply/divide operations.

Calendar: An application to keep track of your agenda. You can create/delete events or tasks, set a reminder, the timezone and duration of the event or task.

Camera: An application to use the on-board camera to take pictures or short videos.

Clock: An application to set up your alarms, check the time in various parts of the world (worldclock) and a stopwatch.

Alarm: A clock that wakes sleeper at present time, user is able to create new alarm with setting time, repeat, snooze and tone etc in UI.

World Clock: Able to know the time all over the world as the same time by it;

Stopwatch: A timepiece that can be started or stopped for exact timing

Dialer: A BT HFP (Hands-Free Profile) dialer application that uses oFono and BlueZ to make and receive phone calls through a bluetooth-paired mobile phone.

Contacts: An application to organise your contacts. You can define groups and also mark your favourite contacts.

Email: An application to send/receive emails.

Gallery: An application to browse through your local images and organise them by albums, adding tags, etc. You can share pictures via email or bluetooth, scroll through them manually or view them all in slideshow mode.

Tips, tricks and other workarounds

Tizen IVI kernel for x86

The Tizen IVI kernel has been renamed from kernel-adaptation-intel-automotive to kernel-x86-ivi. For more information about the Tizen IVI kernel, please go to kernel-x86-ivi

UX defaults to Portrait mode

Tizen IVI 2.0 boots by default into a portrait mode UI. To change this to Landscape mode, edit:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

And remove or comment out the line that reads:

Option "Rotate" "left"

Home screen icons overlapping

Depending on your screen resolution, the icons from the home screen may look a bit off or overlap with each other. You can tweak the way they appear by modifying the menu-screen package. Go to data/edje/item_4x4.edc and modify the following part: e.g. from relative: 1.0 1.0 to relative: 0.5 0.5

Using the VTC7KBK with a CheLong monitor

If you use the VTC7KBK with a CheLong monitor, the resolution will by default be 640x480 resulting in a home screen that looks off. You can force a better resolution (such as 1024x768) by editing the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and modifying the Screen as follows: